Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Meeting
Canceled
(due to the expected
snowstorm. Stay safe and warm and see you all March 24th.)
Dyed in the Wool
Intrepidly tending sheep in all seasons on her New
England farm provides Barbara Parry with a unique vantage point for studying
nature’s colors. In her slide presentation, she will share how, with help from
a digital camera that she carries everywhere, she takes her color cues from
nature, translating them into a palette for her hand dyed yarns. Learn tips for
using digital imagery as an inspirational springboard for your own color work in
dyeing fiber.
Barbara Parry’s 220-acre sheep farm in
the Berkshire foothills of western Massachusetts is home to her dye studio
where she dyes the yarns produced from her flock and markets them under her
farm’s label, Foxfire Fiber and Designs (www.foxfirefiber.com). Her
hand-dyed yarns and fibers have been featured in Wild Fibers magazine
and in several knitting books, and her first book Teach Yourself Visually
Hand-Dyeing was released by Wiley Publishing in May 2009. Barbara
chronicles life on her farm in her blog: Sheep Gal (www.sheepgal.com) and
is a free-lance contributor to fiber arts publications. She enjoys teaching
others to spin and dye, and loves exploring new avenues in fiber arts.
7:30 PM, Wolbach Farm, Sudbury MA